Gun-cleaning rod.



No. 889,890. PATENTED JUNE 9, 1908.

'H. B. BASS.

GUN CLEANING ROD.

APPLICATION IILED SEPT. 16, 1907.

UNITED STATES HARRY B. BASS, OF YUKON, OKLAHOMA.

GUN-CLEANING- ROD.

No. ssaseo.

Specification of Letters Patent.

'ratented June 9, 1908..

Application filed. September 16, 1907. Serial-No. 898,202.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY B. BASS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Yukon,

in the county of Canadian and State of Oklahoma, have invented a new and useful Gun- Cleaning Rod, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to cleanin rods for guns, rifles and other fire-arms and has for its object to provide acomparatively simple, inexpensive and efficient device of this character by means of which the interior of a gun barrel or other fire arm may be effectually cleaned.

A further object of the invention is to provide a cleaning rod havinga spirally dis osed groove formed in the walls thereof fort e reception of a cloth or other cleaning medium thereb to prevent said cleaning medium from sfiding longitudinally of the rod during the cleaning operation.

A further object is to form the rod with oppositely disposed slots or openings for anchoring the adjacent ends of the cleaning medium in position on the rod, one of said s ots being intersected by the spiral groove.

A still further ObJGCt of the invention is generally to improve this class of devices so as to increase their utility, durability and efliciency as well as to reduce the cost of manufacture.

Further objects and advantages will appear in the following description, it being understood that various changes in form, proportions and minor details of construction may be resorted to within the scope of the ap ended claims.

n the accompanying drawings forming a 7 part of this specification: Figure 1 is a perspective view of a cleaning rod constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the lower portion of the rod showing the cleaning medium in position thereon. Fi 3 is a transverse sectional view taken t rough the cloth receiving slot. Fig. 4: is a transverse sectional view through the rooved portion of the rod. Fig. 5 is a detail erspective view of the lower end of the rod? Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in all of the figures of the drawin s.

The 1m roved device forming the subject matter 0 the present invention includes a cylindrical bar or rod 5 having one end thereof curved to form a terminal loop constituting a finger piece 6 by means of which the device may be conveniently manipulated.

The walls of the rod at the lower end thereof are rovided with a spirally disposed groove 7 w ich extends a proximately onethird the length of the ro and is ada ted to receive a strip of cloth or other 0 caning medium 8. 4

Formed in the lower end of the rod 5 is an elongated transverse slot 9 which is inter sected by the spiral groove 7 and constitutes an anchoring member for the adjacent end of the cleaning medium 8, there being a similar slot 10 formed in the rod at the o posite end of the spiral groove, as shown. 7 t will thus be seen that the groove 7 servesto hold the cleaning medium 8 in osition on the active end of the rod during t he cleaning 0 eration thereby to prevent bunching of t e cloth within the gun barrel while the transverse op osite ends of the cleaning cloth.

y having the lower slot 9 intersected by the spiral groove the cloth may be readily guided to the groove by simply holding one end of the cloth and rotating the rod between the fingers, as will be readily understood.

It will of course be understood that the spiral groove may extend to any desired height on the rod and that the pitchof said groove may be varied at will so as to conform to the inclination or pitch of the grooves of different rifle barrels.

The cleaning rod may be made in difl'ferent sizes and shapes and may be nickeled or otherwise coated or plated to give the same a neat appearance and to prevent the metal from corroding.

From the foregoing description it will be seen that there is provided an' extremely simple, inexpensive and eflicient device a mirably adapted forthe attainment of the ends in view.

Having thus described the invention what is claimed is:

1. A cleaning rod having a s iral groove formed in the walls thereof for tile reception of a cleaning medium, there being slots formed in the rod for anchoring the op osite ends of the cleaning medium, one o said slots being intersected by the spiral groove at the active end of-the rod.

2. A cleaning rod having one end thereof provided with a finger piece and its opposite end formed with a splral groove extending slots 9 and 10 form anchoring meansfor the 1 approximately one-third the length of the r0 for the reception of a cleaning medium, there being transverse slots formed in the rod for anchoring the opposite ends of the cleaning medium, one of said slots being disposed between the finger piece and the adacent end of the groove and the other intersepited by said groove at the active end of the ro 3. A cleaning rod having one end thereof provided with a finger piece and its op osite end formed with a spiral groove, there ein a transverse slot formed in the rod at eac end of the spiral groove, one of said slots being spaced from the groove and the other intersected by said groove, and a strip of flexible material having one end thereof threaded through the lower slot, and an intermediate portlon seated within and curved to conform to the spiral groove, the terminal of said flexible strip being extended transversely through the adjacent slot.

In. testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto aflixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

HARRY B. BASS. 

